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Mary Elsie Moore

Brooklyn, 22 Oct 1889 – New York City, 21 Dec 1941

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Facts and their sources

  • Born22 Oct 1889, Brooklynnot verified1 source
  • Died21 Dec 1941, New York Citynot verified1 source

A life in time

  1. 22 Oct 1889

    Born in Brooklyn

  2. 7 Dec 1911

    A son is born

  3. 21 Dec 1941

    Dies in New York City, aged 52

Family

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Children · 1

During her lifetime

She lived through 7 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Brooklyn.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1880s · Mary is born in Brooklyn

Who governed

What people wore

Corset Pressure for Hourglass Figures

To achieve a fashionable hourglass figure, women's corsets could exert as much as eighty pounds of compacting pressure on the body.

Getting around

Railroads replace steamboats

As railroads expanded in the 1880s and 1890s, they made river steamboats increasingly inefficient and costly, eventually causing river transportation for passengers to fall by the wayside.

At the table

Daily water hauling for chores

Women in urban and rural households carried approximately 200 pounds of water into their homes daily for cooking, cleaning, and drinking.

Electric light. Edison’s light bulb and his first power stations, in New York and London, began to light cities with electricity.Around the world · 1879–1882

Electric light. Edison’s light bulb and his first power stations, in New York and London, began to light cities with electricity.

KMJ, alpha masking by Edokter · CC BY-SA 3.0

In the news1882

Chinese Exclusion Act Passed in 1882

The Chinese Exclusion Act suspended immigration of Chinese laborers under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.

Music

Pioneer Songs in Oklahoma Territory

In the late 19th-century Oklahoma Territory, rural settlers enjoyed singing humorous parodies of familiar songs that depicted their daily trials and experiences. They often sang these songs together while traveling in wagons to and from social gatherings.

Daily life

Demanding daily chores and cooking stoves

Cooking relied on cast iron stoves that required up to 50 pounds of coal or wood daily and constant attention to dampers and fires. Housework was so demanding that laundry day was nicknamed Blue Monday due to its exhausting labor.